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December 14, 2019
TheRegistrar, Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria, TRCN Josiah Ajiboye saysover two million teachers have been certified and registered to teach inNigeria.
Ajiboye, whoaddressed newsmen on activities of the Council in the year 2019, said that the teacherswere confirmed as certified professionals in the ongoing registration exercise.
The councilhad earlier given an ultimatum of December 31, 2019 as the deadline to banunqualified persons from teaching in the classroom.
He explained that the Council is also using the exercise to recover the data base ofqualified teachers, following the introduction of the Professional QualifyingExamination, PQE, suggesting that the examination should be scheduled to holdevery quarter to meet the yearnings of prospective teachers.
The Registrarsaid that the step would also increase the number of qualified teachers inschools He added that the council had successfully built a Teachers Career Pathpolicy so as to remove teachers from the normal scheme of service to a specialscheme that would improve their welfare and working conditions.
Ajiboye saidthat there would be a project in 2020 tagged: “One teacher, one laptop”,to cater for the needs of teachers.